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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Stephen figure out about his not returning to Clongowes?
(a) They plan to send him to England to study.
(b) From then on he will be home schooled.
(c) His father has converted to Protestantism.
(d) It signifies a change in his father's finances.

2. What political figure becomes a topic of conversation and disagreement among the adults?
(a) Parnell
(b) Cromwell
(c) Churchill
(d) Goldsmith

3. What is Stephen's most troubling problem as he sees it?
(a) the need to make money
(b) the wasting fires of lust
(c) the bad influences of his friends
(d) the lack of faith

4. What are Stephen's father and the priests always urging him to do?
(a) to be a gentleman and a good Catholic
(b) to confess his sins daily
(c) to enter the priesthood
(d) to work harder at his lessons

5. Where does Stephen keep himself during the football game?
(a) on the bench
(b) next to the prefect
(c) on the fringes of his line
(d) In the thick of the action

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Mike Flynn?

2. What results from Stephen's fall into the ditch?

3. Which of the older boys opted for the flogging?

4. After what does Stephen model his poem titles in his notebook?

5. Why is Stephen exempted from his classes?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the extent of Stephen's knowledge of Parnell?

2. Explain the inconsistency of Stephens' devotion to his mother and his plans for his own future.

3. Explain something of the longing that Stephen feels even from an early age.

4. What describes Stephen's deepening connection with literature?

5. Detail Stephen's experience at acting in a play at school.

6. Show how Stephen begins to weaken in his devotion to God.

7. How does Stephen encounter the dean of studies?

8. Mention something about the antagonism Stephen forms toward his mother.

9. Describe the conflict in Stephen as he leaves the director's office.

10. What are the sights and sounds that accompany Stephen's walk to the university in the mornings?

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